The Rain Wilds Chronicles Quotes

“When had it become so ingrained in her to apologize whenever she wanted something for herself?”
― Robin Hobb, The Rain Wilds Chronicles: Dragon Keeper, Dragon Haven, City of Dragons, and Blood of Dragons

“Becoming an Elderling. An ancient city that offered its magic to him. ‘And I think that one was just for taking baths. Can you imagine that? A whole building, just for getting clean? And that one? A place for growing things. You go inside and there’s this big room with all these pots of earth. And pictures made out of little bits of rock, um, mosaics, that was what Alise called them. Pictures of water and flowers and dragons in water and people in water and fish.”
― Robin Hobb, The Rain Wild Chronicles: The Complete 4-Book Collection

“Things can be broken, or lost. All a man can keep for certain are the things in his mind and heart.”
― Robin Hobb, The Rain Wilds Chronicles: Dragon Keeper, Dragon Haven, City of Dragons, and Blood of Dragons

“His father always turned any conversation back onto his failures as a son.”
― Robin Hobb, The Rain Wilds Chronicles: Dragon Keeper, Dragon Haven, City of Dragons, and Blood of Dragons

“No, he has never struck me. But there are many ways for a man to be hard-handed with a woman that do not involve striking her.”
― Robin Hobb, Rain Wilds Chronicles

“She was a dragon, not a mindless mud salamander.”
― Robin Hobb, The Rain Wilds Chronicles: Dragon Keeper, Dragon Haven, City of Dragons, and Blood of Dragons